I can't tell you about Brody's Christmas Day without telling you about his Christmas celebration at his Grandma's last week. You see, when Caleb brought Brody home a catalogue from Toys R Us in October we had NO IDEA how deeply he would fall for ONE PARTICULAR TOY... Ninjago's "The Great Devourer" Or, as we've come to refer to it, "The gwate devow-o-o."

While Caleb slept peacefully each night with his toy catalogue on his pillow beside his head, Brody couldn't sleep, for fear of not getting this one toy! It's been an exhausting couple of months! But finally the day came and Brody picked up the large box under Grandma's tree, marked with his name. Uncle Geordie shook it and tried to convince Brody that the box actually just held a bunch of dried macaroni. Lucky for us all, Uncle Geordie was wrong!

By 7am the next morning this extraordinarily difficult and massive Lego project had been completed by Brody (age 7!) What followed in the wake of that glorious gift was a peacefully week. He didn't even mention getting another gift come Christmas Day. But there were more gifts from his Dad and me. Legos primarily, but Matt also got Brody the family's first Green Machine!

With all the wonderful new gifts, I think the greatest joy for my middle-boy was having his Grandma with us to sit and work on all his fabulous new Lego sets. What a gift she is to us all...